There were a couple of things that were disappointing about the responses to last week’s Weekly Question of the Week: The first is that they were all jokes, but how often my response was to say, “That be COOL;” the second thing was having to narrow it down to finalists because of the number of great responses. I got it down to 8 then had to pick randomly. So if you’re not a finalist this week and wondering if you’re one of the two who got axed randomly? Yes. Yes, you definitely were. I remember clearly.
But finalists there are, so please take a moment and review, vote, and shamelessly slander the other finalists if you’re one of them.
Also, congratulations to Life With The Top Down, winner of last week’s finalists with her response to “What would you most like to her the airplane captain announce over the intercom?”: “Greetings and welcome to Fantasy Fuselage! Your original flight of choice to a Dull and Dreary destination, has been diverted. We will be re-routed to a little place known as Your Hearts Desire.” This means Life With The Top Down is my featured blogger of the week! She’s pretty new to blogging, so by all means support her by checking out her site.
The Byronic Man 
April 14, 2012 at 7:42 am
These are cool! I am reeeeeeaally sure that I don’t want to see the movie Debbie Does Dickens. Eeeeuuuwww!! But very funny!
April 14, 2012 at 5:00 pm
It is a concept that really sticks in the brain, isn’t it?
April 15, 2012 at 11:20 am
Coming soon to a drive-in near you: http://freddyflow.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/debbie-does-dickens/
April 19, 2012 at 8:41 am
Oh Please, Susie! You know you do. I guess, in this case it would depend on what Debbie is Doing. This was the cleverest, hence… my vote. But you weren’t a finalist, and that would have had undue influence on my vote… besides, you are a hell of a lot cutter than Freddy!
April 19, 2012 at 10:21 am
Thanks Ted!! 🙂
April 19, 2012 at 10:57 am
Nobody’s cutterer than I am. I am the King of Cutrescence. (That said, you’re absolutely right…)
April 14, 2012 at 8:12 am
I would love to see flash fiction blog posts on all of these from the respective bloggers. Very funny!
April 14, 2012 at 2:33 pm
That’s a great idea!
April 15, 2012 at 10:17 am
My brain is racing (“This is your brain on Dickens”). I got Little Pip on line 2, we’re gonna blow some minds.
(A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production)
April 14, 2012 at 8:49 am
Oh it. Is. On!!
Debbie does Dickens…that would be amazing. I mean, vote for me! Vote for ME.
Me. That’s Jules from Go Guilty Pleasures. J-u-l-e-s.
April 14, 2012 at 9:49 am
You have my vote! I’m all for the thought of loosening up people in colonial garb.
April 14, 2012 at 5:02 pm
I just want to see the scene where someone’s lamenting the extinction of the Mohicans (I know that’s not what Last of the Mohicans is about), and Rick Moranis says, “Well, there’s one left, actually. But… here’s the thing…”
April 15, 2012 at 10:23 am
Despite some stiff competition, I have great expectations that the tail of two cities (Dallas-Ft Worth) will be a winner.
April 15, 2012 at 2:40 pm
I voted for myself, Jules, but yours was so good that I actually felt guilty about it.
April 15, 2012 at 3:05 pm
LOL! Likewise, skippingstones! 😉
April 19, 2012 at 8:43 am
Hey… is it too late to change my vote? Jules is really a hell of a lot cuter than Freddy!!!
April 19, 2012 at 8:51 am
I just checked her blog… she is WAY cuter!
April 19, 2012 at 9:25 am
I like you, Ted.
April 19, 2012 at 11:02 am
I’m hereby changing my blog photos to include four puppies, three baby chicks, two kitty cats, and a 19-year-old in a leather bikini. Can’t ignore the critical cuteness demographic when running for election!
April 14, 2012 at 9:01 am
I’m gonna have to up my game here I see.
April 14, 2012 at 5:01 pm
It’s the big leagues, all right.
April 14, 2012 at 9:43 am
Hey, you said MINE was the most brilliant pairing ever! Damn – axed randomly again.
April 14, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Yours was the best non-answer I’ve ever seen.
April 14, 2012 at 9:47 am
Thank you Byronic Man for the opportunity and nomination. This is a learning process for me and I am in good company with you and your followers who are smart and well written. Winning Rocks! My YEARS of working on political campaigns has paid off! The hounding phone calls, emails, Facebook posts and yes, sexual favors (to the hubby of course) worked. He is not computer savvy, so he needed a little more coaxing. Friends and family can rest now… well, at least until the Presidential campaign is in full swing anyway.
April 14, 2012 at 5:05 pm
It’s true, my readers are shockingly smart.
April 15, 2012 at 11:43 am
Smarter and smarterer than the average bear.
April 14, 2012 at 12:21 pm
I came to comment about how the other choices suck, but they’re all so wonderful. I feel like I’m at the Algonquin Round Table, sipping a Sidecar and smoking nonchalantly. So freakin classy!
April 14, 2012 at 5:07 pm
It’s exactly like the Algonquin Round Table here, only people can be in their pajamas.
April 14, 2012 at 5:10 pm
As long as they’re still sipping gin rickey’s and Jack roses.
April 15, 2012 at 10:08 am
The round table’s a good idea, as we won’t lacerate our capacious noggins when we pass out from the gin.
I also like the Algonquin and PJs image–sort of like a sleepover for lit-types.
April 15, 2012 at 10:44 am
…but…if the table’s round, how do we decide who carves the turkey?
April 15, 2012 at 11:13 am
Dude with the knife… or the sharpest wit. Hope we’re not eating Onan, are we?
April 15, 2012 at 11:45 am
Well, actually, mine does suck (and other verbs that shall remain nameless).
April 14, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Go Julie! I love that! 😉 even if I got hacked.
April 14, 2012 at 5:13 pm
I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!
I need to hire an assistant to determine the finalists just so I can A) avoid the stress and B) Say “What? Jerry didn’t choose yours? That idiot!”
April 15, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Thanks, Renee! 🙂 I plan on shamelessly plugging myself in tomorrow’s post. (I’ve still got a few days, right?!)
April 16, 2012 at 7:30 am
It’s definitely awesome. And it would be a GuiltyPleasure. Or not. 😉
Just entered your awesome contest and tweeted and put on my Facebook page! But let’s be clear: I want to win. Just saying.
April 14, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Since I live by the old Talladega Nights’ adage of “If you’re not first, you’re last”, this is quite a blow to my pride. Being actually last anyway….it’s even more so. But let me please commend Jules for “Honey I Shrunk the Last of the Mohicans”. Yours was by far my favorite.
April 14, 2012 at 6:06 pm
You’ve got all week to skew the vote! Go buy 50 computers, vote on each one and then return them! It’s as easy as that!
April 15, 2012 at 11:54 am
I will undermine that evil plan by buying all the computers and planting a Freddy Flow Trojan Horse redirect.
April 15, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Sweet!! World domination. Or, you know, Byronic Man sidebar domination. It’s so close I can almost taste it. Thank you!
April 14, 2012 at 6:24 pm
It was hard to pick, ultimately though I had to go with Debbie
April 15, 2012 at 10:09 am
Little Debbie (and Pip) thank you! As does the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau…
April 15, 2012 at 1:19 am
Good recommendation for Life with the Top Down – she’s really funny! Thanks!
April 15, 2012 at 2:32 am
My vote for “Count Chocula of Monte Cristo” is biased on two counts:
1) I’m a chocaholic
2) The Count of Monte Cristo is my favourite (yes, I’m Canadian, eh?) fictional character.
April 15, 2012 at 10:11 am
What about Boo Berry? Hey, and it’s healthy, with all those antioxidants…
April 15, 2012 at 5:38 am
They’re all so good. I wish I could vote for more than 1.
April 15, 2012 at 10:13 am
Debbie and Charles humbly beseech your vote. If elected, I promise a chicken in every pot, a Yugo in every garage, and santorum on every … (never mind).
April 15, 2012 at 10:48 am
With campaign promises like that, how could I vote for anyone else?
You’ve convinced me. My vote is cast!
April 15, 2012 at 11:10 am
All right! Your Yugo is being shipped as we speak, the chicken is getting choked, and the santorum (oh, never mind)…
April 15, 2012 at 11:24 am
Ok y’all, I’ve “fleshed out” my mashup. I’m working on reincarnating some dude called Fellini so he can direct (heard he did “8 1/2,” so he’d be perfect!):
http://freddyflow.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/debbie-does-dickens/
Remember, your vote counts! Don’t let this go to the Supremes again…
April 15, 2012 at 2:28 pm
I’ve decided to work on campaigning for next week’s contest. Freddyflow is attacking this thing like a helicopter parent at an Easter Egg Hunt. I may still win, but it’ll take a massive surge in tasteful voters who appreciate the idea of spicing up “A Tale of Two Cities” with flesh eating zombies. If you’re too highbrow for that, then obviously Debbie Does Dickens won’t work for you either.
April 15, 2012 at 3:22 pm
BWAAP-BWAAP-BWAAP-BWAAP-BWAAP-BWAAP-BWAAP! (goes the Freddy Flow copter). If my little Britney doesn’t get all the eggs, somebody’s gonna get a gross of Peeps right up the santorum.
April 15, 2012 at 2:54 pm
trash talk, trash talk…mud-slinging…some slanderous phrases…more trash talk…flinging dirt…trash talk, trash talk…
Did I do that right? Is it working?
April 15, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Perfect! The Repuglican [sic] nomination is yours…
April 15, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Thank you! Thank you very much!